All the headlines from our New York Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 12 2012 // A coalition of seven eastern states led by New York plans to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to issue new guidelines to curb methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that may be linked to climate...
Dec 12 2012 // U.S. securities regulators charged a New Jersey-based consultant on Tuesday with defrauding investors in the China-based companies he helped make public through a backdoor method known as a “reverse merger.”The...
Dec 11 2012 // A New York State bill concerning the Supplemental Uninsured/Underinsured Motorists (SUM) coverage has recently been delivered to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has until the middle of next week to either sign or veto the...
Dec 11 2012 // HSBC Holdings Plc has agreed to pay $1.92 billion to settle a multi-year U.S. criminal probe into money-laundering lapses at the British lender, the largest penalty ever paid by a bank.HSBC admitted to a breakdown of...
Dec 9 2012 // More than three decades before Superstorm Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to...
Dec 6 2012 // Two insurance brokerages in the Metro New York region — Cook, Hall & Hyde and Maran Corporate Risk Associates — finalized their merger that was initially announced in September.The employees of Cook Maran and...
Dec 5 2012 // The Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) responded to about 37 percent more fires last month.Over 100 houses in Breezy Point, N.Y., burned to the ground as flood waters isolated the community from fireman. U.S....
Dec 5 2012 // (The author is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are her own.)It took one day for Superstorm Sandy to destroy my house. So far, it’s taken more than a month for insurance to help me get back in. The last...
Dec 5 2012 // The New York Road Runners — a non-profit community running group and the organizer of the annual New York City Marathon — could get millions of dollars in insurance proceeds thanks to its event cancellation...
Dec 3 2012 // New York Sen. Charles Schumer says New York expects to get tens of billions of dollars in federal money to cover damages from Superstorm Sandy.Sen. Schumer, second from right, surveying Sandy damages at NYU Langone Medical...
Dec 3 2012 // The Statue of Liberty survived Superstorm Sandy with every crown spike in place, but its surrounding island was so badly damaged that the National Park Service doesn’t know when the beloved tourist attraction will...
Dec 3 2012 // It’s been a month since Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc along the East Coast, devastating coastal towns and bringing a record storm surge and flooding and prolonged power outages.And the cost keeps rising. On Nov. 26,...
Dec 2 2012 // A month after Sandy’s floodwaters swept up his block, punched a hole in his foundation and drowned his furnace, John Frawley still has no electricity or heat in his dilapidated home on the Rockaway seashore in...
Nov 30 2012 // California-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers recently hired Jason C. Cavallo to join its New York office as director of commercial lines and marketing, focusing on new business development and management of commercial...
Nov 30 2012 // Targeting strategic expansion, Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton, a New York-headquartered national law firm serving the insurance industry, announced that Louis H. Kozloff has joined as a partner in the Insurance...
Nov 30 2012 // New York’s highest court says it was medical malpractice for a Long Island family doctor to have an affair with a married patient he treated for anxiety and depression but also ruled she shares fault since they both...
Nov 30 2012 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday imposed emergency regulations on insurers to speed the processing of claims from hundreds of thousands of state residents whose properties were damaged or destroyed when...
Nov 29 2012 // New York State Insurance Fund, New York’s largest workers’ compensation and disability benefits carrier, announced Wednesday that it is extending payment deadlines for all policyholders directly affected by...
Nov 29 2012 // Assurant Inc., a provider of specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, appointed Larry N. Port to the position of senior vice president, corporate development. He is based in Assurant’s...
Nov 29 2012 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants huge electrical transformers in commercial buildings hauled to upper floors and wants the ability to shutter key tunnels, airports and subways from floodwaters as part of a $9 billion plan...